Fay Weldon Quotes

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.

My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a home that was full of books. And so I learned to read. I loved to read.

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice.

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

Not everybody has time to pay attention fully, or not everybody has the time to read a book. Some people refuse to read books, and I'm just an unread book. Open me!

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?

I don't need new boots I got bluchers back down home. Eff the effing bluchers I'll buy you new adjectival effing elastic sided boots.

In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

I have always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl I had a book by my bed and would get lost in the world of make believe.

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

Home is where your books are.

I was never without a book in my hand.

I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.

First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.

Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain living chatty familiarity. And not only does each book inspire the sense that it belongs to its readers, but it also suggests the name of others, and one begets the desire of the other.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.

Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.

There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster.

What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure of expectation in a carefully circumscribed area like the field of books, where you can be lucky or unlucky, but the risk of disappointment isn't serious.